What are you listening to right now?

[Byrne]

http://www.mixcloud.com/porky/thats-how-much-i-love-tv/

Soul, Funk, R'N'B

(just play it in the background & you'll get it - a great mix from the fila brazillia man). More here (& they're all great!)

[Allegro]

I thought for a while why the video maker would’ve added clip after clip of elements in nature in motion such as birds, a bear, gymnasts, dolphins, ballerinas, ballerinos, plants, auroras, dancers, clouds, wind, fire, water, mountains, spiders, rocks, moon, sun, stars, galaxy, penguins, whales, earth and snow. I thought What in our known Universe isn’t rhythmically vibrating, or, if you will, moving and communicating and dancing within those vibrations? Yep, same song of inquiries from Allegro’s music book!


^ Fugata from Soul of the Tango | composer, Astor Piazzola
Yo-Yo Ma, cellist performing with some of Piazzolla’s former music associates.

AllMusic Review highlights, paragraph spaces added

Soul of the Tango: The Music of Astor Piazzolla

Inspired by a general love of the tango, and more specifically the tango of Astor Piazzolla, on the part of Yo-Yo Ma, the Soul of the Tango album is a masterful work of the nuevo tango, played by Ma’s cello and many of Piazzolla’s former associates. Piazzolla’s old guitarists Sergio and Odair Assad even showed up to work on a pair of tracks arranged by Sergio: the Tango Suite (consisting of Andante and Allegro).

The sheer beauty of one of Piazzolla’s tangos is generally enough to warrant the purchase of an album involving them. An album such as this one, where all of the songs (save one: Tango Remembrances, where Ma plays along with outtakes from Piazzolla’s recording of The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night album) are compositions by Piazzolla is even better. Add to this the masterful playing of Ma, and the surprising facility in which the cello fits into the tango, and you’ve got what could become a classic album, if only it weren’t on the classical label from Sony.

The album begins with Libertango, a composition from Piazzolla’s first album that became the theme song for the movie The Tango Lesson. Following is the pair of tracks in the Tango Suite from Sergio Assad. Then comes Sur: Regreso al Amor, a softer work, though with some definite virtuosity displayed. Le Grand Tango is an eleven minute tour de force in the tango, and Fugata is a tango written under the guidelines of a classical fugue. The next work is the aforementioned Tango Remembrances, which is a particularly nice work, probably due to the appearance of Piazzolla’s own playing. Mumuki is a more complicated composition, and Tres Minutos con la Realidad is a choppier, peppier work. Milonga del Angel is a seemingly sentimental work that shows off Piazzolla’s ability to express the emotions of a song perfectly and purely. To finish the album, Ma presents Café 1930, a rather slow paced work, but again, as in Milonga del Angel, expresses emotion very fully in its nostalgia.

Overall, the album is a stunning work of art, and even those that may not have heard of Piazzolla could easily be lured to his music via this single album.

[Hammer of Los]

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Sorry man, but I gave up on the tango.

I know what I like.

Well you ask me why I like to dance.

And you ask me why I like to sing.

And you ask me why I like to play.

I got to get my kicks some way!





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[Hammer of Los]

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I think I'll lurk here for a while.

Kids and wife away at the in-laws till tomorrow evening.

Or the Wicked Witch of the West and I'm So Straight I'm a Wierdo, as I like to call them.

Not to their face, you understand.

So, I have some free time.

I could research UK divorce law.

Or I could spring clean the flat like I promised.

And I sure need to get my washing machine fixed!

My washing machine is buggered!

I'll have to lug big bags of laundry down to the laundrette and sit with the hoi polloi.

I know, its frightful.

But maybe I could catch up with my reading whilst there.

I just wanna know when that fr**kin' buddha of compassion is gonna get here.

How long I gotta stay under this mountain?

Hang on though.

I think my hands are free.

I could try a little finger wigglin'.

You know I said Alice asked me to mail him.

Well actually, he asked me twice.

He said, "If you have wings growing out of your back, then you're probably a mutant angel. Or a comic book character. So email me at alice@nightswithalicecooper.com."

And the next night he said, "If you are a wizard, email me at etc."

I'll email him one day.

Probably before I go to Shaolin.

Anyway.

Music!

If music be the food of...

Ah f**k it.

Evil power disappears,
Demons worry when the Wizard is near.

But Parker's such a dork.





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[Hammer of Los]

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Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!

Sand mandalas!

I see a rainbow rising.

Look there on the horizon!





It's just a rainbow in the dark.





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[justdrew]

[Grizzly]

[Hammer of Los]

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Bashee playing magician sitting lotus on the floor.

Belly dancing beauty with a power driven saw.

Had my share of nightmares, didn't think there could be much more.

Then in walked Rodrick Usher with the Lady Eleanor.





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[Hammer of Los]

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[Bruce Dazzling]

An oral history of Belle and Sebastian's seminal record If You're Feeling Sinister.

[Hammer of Los]

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Space and Time makin' Love!





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[KUAN]

[KUAN]

[IanEye]

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i climb where i can see - you're close but i won't reach
blank stare at the TV - the Howling II's on channel 3
oh, i drift off to sleep
while the snow falls on the screen

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[Hammer of Los]

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